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A man in the Czech Republic was laying some pipe in his back garden when he noticed metal sticking out of the ground. After some excavation work, he unearthed two 400 year old church bells, previously stolen from nearby churches.

In 2014, a man was doing a landscaping project when he discovered what appeared to be human bones. After medical examination, they were determined to be from a Native American -- and they were over 1000 years old.

The Star of Murfreesboro is a 34.25 carats (6.850 g) blue diamond that is eleven-sixteenths of an inch (17 mm) in diameter. The diamond was found by John Pollock at the Arkansas Diamond Mine near Murfreesboro, Arkansas. It's considered the largest diamond ever found by a tourist -- and it was valued at $15,000 when it was found in 1964. Adjusted for today's inflation, it would be worth about $95,452.

In 1997, a 250 million year old pliosaur bone was discovered while a man was building a fence in his garden. The man in question actually stored the bone in his shed for 16 years, before finally getting it examined in 2013.

In early 2014, a Canadian was clearing the gap between his garage and fence line when he discovered a pillow case. Inside the pillow case was a fully loaded machine gun and a mobile phone. Clearly, someone in the past was trying to prepare themselves for the worst.

In the late seventies, a boy discovered something sticking out of the ground. At the time, everyone thought it was insignificant, but 30 years later, experts identified it as the skull and jaw bones of a 16 million year old baleen whale.

In Hyde Park, New York, a man found an unusual bone whilst renovating his pond. After having it looked at by a specialist (who claimed it was a fossil), an excavation of the yard was scheduled. The excavation yielded over 90 mastodon bones.

Two boys named Eric and Andrew from Detroit, Michigan built a dam in the creek that flows through their backyard. One of them spotted a bone and, assuming it was human, alerted authorities. However, experts then authenticated the bone as a vertebrae from a mastodon some 13,000 years old.